Support for Third-Party Software

Oracle acknowledges and supports the backward-compatibility assertions made by third-party vendors. Therefore, where vendors assert backward-compatibility, subsequent maintenance releases and service packs may be used. If an incompatibility is identified, Oracle will specify a patch release on which the product should be deployed (and remove the incompatible version from the supported matrix) or provide a maintenance release or service fix to the Oracle product.

Server-side Updates: Support for upgrades to third-party server-side components is governed by the Subsequent Maintenance Release Policy. Typically, Oracle supports upgrading third-party server-side components to the next maintenance release of service pack of the currently supported release. Upgrades for the next major release are not supported.

Client-side updates: Oracle supports automatic updates to client components, including updates to the next major release of third-party client components. For example, you can update the browser JRE version to the currently supported JRE version.